PRIESTLEY (JOSEPH)


Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, vol. 1-2 (of 3), 5 engraved plates (2 folding), volume 1 with half-title, 4pp. errata and adverts at end, 4pp. adverts at end of volume 2, occasional light spotting, marginal paper flaw to I.I3 [Crook S/451-452; Norman 1750; Wellcome IV, p.436.], J. Johnson, 1774-1775--Experiments and Observations Relating to Various Branches of Natural Philosophy; with a continuation of the Observations on Air, vol. 1-2 [i.e. continuation volumes 4-5 of Observations on Different Kinds of Air], 2 folding engraved frontispieces, vol. 2 with the 2 additional leaves pp.*395-*398 inserted after Cc5 and with 6pp. listing of Priestley's works not mentioned in Crook, occasional light spotting [Crook S/465-466; Wellcome IV, p.436], J. Johnson, 1779 [-Birmingham, Pearson and Rollason for J. Johnson], 1781; Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit, engraved frontispiece, occasional light spotting, without half-title [Crook PM/357 (incorrectly omitting gathering Aa4 at end with pp.349-356 and 4pp. listing of Priestley's works); Wellcome IV, p.436 (second ed.)], J. Johnson, 1777, together 5 volumes, occasional neat ink annotations in a contemporary hand, uniformly bound in contemporary half calf, all neatly rebacked preserving original red morocco gilt labels, extremities slightly rubbed, 8vo (5)
|An attractive group of Priestley's works, comprising first editions of the first two volumes of Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, the first two continuation volumes of that work, and his first publication on philosophy and metaphysics.